The benefit of test driven development is, you *know* your code will work before you ship it. Although, that is contingent upon whether you've written thorough and proper enough tests.

I find a significant portions of the "bugs" I make come from making the wrong assumptions (which can be caused by many things: wrong or unclear documentations, bad communication between the product owner and the dev team, me not checking facts with the right people) etc. Making the wrong assumptions usually means the tests are wrong. So while I write code that passes all tests, I still don't have code that "works".

Don't get me wrong. I do see value in tests. But I've been programming for way too long to see the silver bullet in anything. Only for trivial code will "passes all tests" mean "the code is bugfree". A test suite is just a tool. Just like use strict and use warnings. They're all just modest tools in writing code.

[Your Mother]:Americans are still pumping out video games where you get to slaughter as many Germans as you have the GPU for... It has always struck me as odd that this particular case seems fine to people. :\

[Your Mother]:I like it. I tottered on going into hucksterism because I feel like the world deserves it.

[LanX]:he ... we have a movement here called Anti-Germans based on this

[Corion]:Your Mother: I think that's because (in the west) the Nazi-Germans are recognized as universally evil. Of course, you could do some number games to calculate other measures of evil than "historic losers of second world war" to come up with other evils:)

[Corion]:I've heard "Troll" described as the new Punk, and in a way, it can be as destructive as living the Punk lifestyle, and you don't have to sit out in the cold...